Charles Alston, Ed Loper, Albert Yerger & Ernest Johnson allegedly shoot at police
- Title of event
- Charles Alston, Ed Loper, Albert Yerger & Ernest Johnson allegedly shoot at police
- Type of event
- Riot (March) - Police officer assaulted
- Persons involved
- Charles Alston, Ed Loper, Albert Yerger & Ernest Johnson allegedly shoot at police Alleged offender Alston, Charles (1914)
- Charles Alston, Ed Loper, Albert Yerger & Ernest Johnson allegedly shoot at police Alleged offender Loper, Ed (1914)
- Charles Alston, Ed Loper, Albert Yerger & Ernest Johnson allegedly shoot at police Alleged offender Yerger, Albert (1915)
- Charles Alston, Ed Loper, Albert Yerger & Ernest Johnson allegedly shoot at police Alleged offender Johnson, Ernest (1913)
- Race of actor
- Black
- Address of event
- Charles Alston, Ed Loper, Albert Yerger & Ernest Johnson allegedly shoot at police Happened Primarily at 101, W 138th St
- Start date / time
- March 20, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Night (Any Time)
- Description
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A group of men on the roof of a six story building shot at a white police officer, Jerry Brennan of the Morrisania station, on post at Lenox Ave and 138th Street. When police reinforcements arrived, the men fled. One of them, Charles Alston, tried to jump to the top of an adjoining building, but missed his footing and fell to the second floor ledge. He was taken to hospital in a serious condition. (In the NYJ report, Officer Brennan responds to gunshots at other unidentified police)